Turnout at UK General Elections has remained stubbornly below post-war levels in the new millennium. Between 1950 and 1997, official turnout averaged 76% and never fell below 71% (in 1997); since 2001 average turnout has been 12 percentage points lower, at 64%. We investigate several ...
The Government’s proposals for Wales appeared in a 1997 White Paper entitled ‘A Voice for Wales’. These were narrowly approved in a referendum in September 1997, elections were held in May 1999 and the Assembly, brought into existence by the Government of Wales Act ...
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party leader Ruth Davidson speaks during a general election campaign visit to a removals depot in Edinburgh, Scotland, on June 5, 2017. Britain goes to the polls on June 8 to vote in a general election only days after another terrorist attack on the natio...
So perhaps it’s well to remember in the run-up to the next general election that we, the voters, have our part to play if our democracy is to be worthy of the name. Whereas in yesterday’s bye-elections the parties presumably took some care to select the most attractive candidates, i...
Local elections: From where they are to what they're all for - your ultimate guide A host of local and mayoral elections will be taking place across England on Thursday 1 May - the first voting day since the general election last year. ...
A third ofSwindon's seats are up, and the party will be looking to win more than the 12 they did in 2022. In 1997, Labour secured two parliamentary seats there and a repeat is required for a majority at the next general election. ...
The Labour Party won the 1997 general election in a landslide victory with a parliamentary majority of 179; it was the largest ever Labour majority, and at the time the largest swing to a political party achieved since 1945. Over the next decade, a wide range of progressive social reforms ...
As the general election is only months away, elections expert Professor Stuart Wilks-Heeg from the University of Liverpool, in an exclusive interview with Xinhua, said, "It's quite possible that, like in the 1997 general election, which Labour won by a landslide, there'll be a very strong...
individual level volatility in 2019 compared to the previous two general elections. Following two historically volatile elections, individual level volatility is now at a similar level to that seen in 1997 and 2001. This suggests that support may be settling into a new (relatively) stable pattern....
LONDON (AP) — Millions of voters in England and Wales cast ballots Thursday in an array of local elections amounting to the last big test before a U.K. general elec…